It has been kind of mellow around here lately so it’s time to wake you folks up.
Ian Anderson is perhaps one of the most eccentric rock frontmen from the late ‘60s and ‘70s. His stage presence, unusual and distinctive vocal style, and one-legged flute playing make for one interesting show.
This quote from a press review in Jethro Tull Press titled Rock Beyond Woodstock perhaps explains the Jethro Tull experience best:
Moderates musically, but never on stage. There, they are matchless. Ian Anderson, that famous Fagin come Captain Hook, moves with drunken abandon in phases of sexual intoxication, his arms and legs flailing, his eyes bugging out like uncut diamonds, his shaggy hair dancing merrily in ringlets, waving his flute like the Pied Piper of all lost innocents. Anderson's strength consists in his ability to evoke a mounting atmosphere of lurid, bubbling frenzy — all the while, making a music that is a delicious idyll, totally structured and yet care-free, sharp and delicate.
The original band had to keep changing their name in order to play more than once in the same pub twice since they were never asked back under the same name. Finally while sporting the name of an agricultural pioneer, Jethro Tull was invited back to play a second show and the name then stuck.
Jethro Tull is still active today and currently touring Europe and coming to the US in late summer and fall.
Tonight’s show closes with a number of Ian Anderson collaborations with other top musicians.
Here then for your enjoyment – Jethro Tull! (Crank it up!)
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Direct links to the videos in this evenings show:
Aqualung
Bouree
Witch’s Promise
Thick as a Brick
Songs from the Wood
My God
Dun Ringill
Dark Ages
The Whistler
Locomotive Breath
Song for Jeffrey
Life’s a Long Song
Skating Away on Thin Ice
Jack in the Green => Pussy Willow
A New Day Yesterday
With You There to Help Me
Quizz Kid => Crazed Institution
Heavy Horses
Minstrel in the Gallery
Hymn 43
Velvet Green
Wind Up
Elegy
Hunting Girl
She Said She Was a Dancer
Farm on the Freeway
North Sea Oil => Old Ghosts
Mother Goose
Moths
Budapest
Broadsword
My Sunday Feeling => So Much Trouble
Living in the Past
Fat Man
This is not Love
Kissing Willie
Made in England
Inroduction to Soulmates – With Al Dimeola, Chris Thompson and others.
Look Up to the Sky – With Al Dimeola, Chris Thompson and others.
Last Day of Summer – With Al Dimeola, Chris Thompson and others..
Room No. 8 – With Al Dimeola, Chris Thompson and others.
Locomotive Breath – With Al Dimeola, Chris Thompson and others.
Fat Man - With Jack Bruce and Fela Kuti
African Jam Session – With Jack Bruce and Fela Kuti
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